Series of events at Garage dedicated to interdisciplinary collaboration between artists, scientists, and technology specialists.
POLYTECH.SCIENCE.ART WEEK
DECEMBER 1 – 7, 2014
From December 1–7, 2014, Polytechnic Museum presents Polytech.Science.Art Week, a series of events at Garage Museum of Contemporary Art dedicated to one of the most significant phenomena of contemporary culture – interdisciplinary collaboration between artists, scientists, and technology specialists.
ARTIST, HACKER OR SCIENTIST?
Lecture
Matt Kenyon
Monday, December 1, 7.00 pm
Garage Education Center
Admission is free, pre-registration here
POSITIVE CHANGES
Workshop
Matt Kenyon
Monday, December 1, 3.00 pm
Tuesday, December 2, 10.00 am
Wednesday, December 3, 10.00 am
Garage Education Center
Admission is free, pre-registration here
This three-day workshop discusses the topic of positive changes in human life brought by the synthesis of science, art, and technology.
Wednesday, December 3, 7.00 pm
Public presentation of projects created by participants within the workshop.
Garage Education Center
Admission is free, pre-registration here
HOPSCOTCH
Thursday, December 4, 8.00 pm
Garage Education Center
Admission is free, pre-registration here
Opening of the Hopscotch exhibition presenting the results of the Polytech.Science.Art program workshops run in 2014, displaying artworks created by this year’s workshops participants. Installations and artworks on neuroscience, sonic exploration, network communication, fibertronics, game design, and interactive sensor technologies will be displayed in the exhibition, which will run until December 10, 2014.
Participants: Vadim Epstein, Maria Kramar, Alexander Serechenko, Ildar Yakubov, Ilya Sobol, Alexei Larchenkov, Vladimir Derevyanko, Sej Tubashov, Lena Klabukova, and others.
FEMTECHNET
Theoretical workshop
Friday, 5 December, 4.00 pm
Garage Education Center
Admission is free, pre-registration here
Participants: Lisa Nakamura (US), Irina Aristarkhova (Russia/US) and Natalia Fuchs (Russia).
PLATFORMS DEVELOPMENT AND MEDIA ARCHEOLOGY
Lecture
Lisa Nakamura
Friday, 5 December, 7.30 pm
Garage Education Center
Admission is free, pre-registration here
TRIALOGUE: SCIENCE.ART.TECHNOLOGY
Panel discussion
Saturday, December 6, 4.00 pm
Garage Education Center
Admission is free, pre-registration here
Public panel discussion Trialogue: Science. Art. Technology featuring Martin Honzik (Ars Electronica, Austria), Dmitry Bulatov (NCCA Kaliningrad, Russia), Lisa Nakamura (FemTechNet, US), Aristarkh Chernyshev (Rodchenko Art School / Electromuseum, Russia), Matt Kenyon (SWAMP, US), Alla Mitrofanova (Russia), Irina Aristarkhova (Universiti of Michigan, Detroit, US). Moderated by Natalia Fuchs (The Polytechnic Museum, Russia).
BEHAVIOURS
Interactive performance
Saturday, December 6, 7.00 pm
Garage Education Center
Admission is free, pre-registration here
Participants: Sonia Cillari (Italy), Natalia Fuchs, Ian Kalnberzin, Sergei Kasich, Alexey Yepishev, Julia Chekmas, Vagan Saroyan, Vera Iguchi, Sergei Tubashov, Dmitry Guryev, Denis Zaporozhan, Marina Levakova, Vera Shchelkina, Ilya Trofimov (Russia).
ON THE FUTURE OF CONTEMPORARY ART
Lecture
Dmitriy Bulatov
Sunday, December 7, 7.00 pm
Garage Education Center
Admission is free, pre-registration here
MUSIC AND TECHNOLOGY
Series of sound performances
Garage Education Center
Admission is free
Monday, December 1, 8.30pm
Speck (Russia); video by VJ Intektra (Russia)
Wednesday, December 3, 8.00 pm
Aleksei Borisov, Dmitry ::vtol:: Morozov; video by VJ Poloka (Russia)
Thursday, December 4, 8.30 pm
Ilya Artyomov (Russia)
Friday, 5 December, 9.00 pm
Brinstaar, Foresteppe (Russia).
Saturday, December 6, 7.30 pm
Fizzarum, Ambidextrous, Sal Solaris (Russia); video by VJ Eva_KliSH, Oleg Potiy (Russia)
Sunday, December 7, 8.30 pm
Peter Theremin and Anton Maskeliade (Russia)
Polytech.Science.Art implements the research and other experimental projects of Russian and international experts. The program started earlier in 2014 with a series of workshops whose participants studied hacktivism and avant-garde media with Danja Vasiliev (Russia/Germany); identified themselves within the interactive environment guided by Sonia Cillari (Italy); applied methods of augmented reality to the urban spaces directed by Arturo Castro (Spain); learned about fibertronics and made an interactive map of Moscow on e-textile-enabling microcomputers and sensors together with Artemis Papageorgiou (Greece); visualized their own brain signals using neural interfaces with Enzo Varriale (Italy) and explored sonic environment at the improvised laboratory by Aalborg University (Denmark).
